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Bulletin: Senators hold annual development camp from June 26 to July 2

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Staff Writer
/ Ottawa Senators

OTTAWA - The Ottawa Senators today released the schedule and list of 35 players attending the team’s annual development camp from Tuesday, June 26, to Monday, July 2, at Scotiabank Place and the Bell Sensplex. The club has invited three goaltenders, 12 defencemen and 20 forwards.

Each of the club’s seven selections from the 2012 NHL Entry Draft, held Friday and Saturday in Pittsburgh, will attend. Fans will also get their first chance to welcome Orleans native Cody Ceci, the Ottawa 67’s defenceman the Senators selected with their first-round pick (15th overall).

The development camp, which focuses on off-ice and on-ice training, is led by Randy Lee, the Senators’ director of hockey operations and player development, and the team’s coaching staff headed up by video coach Tim Pattyson, conditioning coach Chris Schwarz and power-skating specialist Marc Power.

Highlights of the Senators development camp schedule:

- On-ice training every day at the Bell Sensplex, starting Tuesday, June 26, at 1:30 p.m., with the exception of the camp’s final day, Monday, July 2, which features the 3-on-3 tournament.

- An evening scrimmage (5-on-5) will take place on Thursday, June 28, at 7 p.m. at the Bell Sensplex. The scrimmage will be followed by a meet-and-greet reception with Senators season-seat owners in the fieldhouse on the lower level of the Sensplex.

- The annual 3-on-3 tournament is set to take place at the Bell Sensplex on Monday, July 2, at 9:45 a.m.

- Off-ice workouts on the mornings of June 27 and June 28 and afternoon workouts on June 29 and June 30.

- An outdoor welcome to Ottawa team-building event in the afternoon on July 1.

- A champions talk with Carleton University men’s basketball head coach Dave Smart. Smart has guided the Ravens to eight Canadian Interuniversity Sport championships since assuming the role in 1999. He has also served as an assistant coach with the Canadian men’s National Team.

- All on-ice workouts, including the team scrimmage and 3-on-3 tournament, are open to the public.

- Media availability will take place at Scotiabank Place following off-ice workouts and at the Bell Sensplex after on-ice practice sessions.

Highlights of the players coming to the development camp:

- Twenty-two (22) players, marked on list below with an asterisk (*), attended the Senators development camp in 2011.

- Nine players spent at least a portion of their 2011-12 season skating for the American Hockey League’s Binghamton Senators.

- Twenty-nine (29) of 35 players attending are Senators draft picks and four were selected in the first round.

- Two prospects played local major junior hockey last season with the Ottawa 67’s (Ceci and Shane Prince), while Jean-Gabriel Pageau played the first half of the season with the Gatineau Olympiques before being traded to Chicoutimi. Ceci is a native of Orleans, Ont. while Francois Brassard is a native of Gatineau, Que.